| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.1

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Labor, Loyalty, & Rebellion: Southwestern Illinois Coal Miners and World War I. By Carl R. Weinberg. (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2005. xviii, 246 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-8093-2634-5. Paper, $27.00, ISBN 0-8093-2635-3.)

Carl R. Weinberg argues that World War I triggered a seesaw struggle between patriotism and class interests among southwestern Illinois coal miners, who suffered from "an impossible dream" (p. 199) that they could be both patriotic and class-conscious. An ethnically diverse group with a sizable proportion of German origin, the Illinois coal miners were represented by the United Mine Workers of America (UMWA), which was itself politically divided between socialist and conservative factions. Although the membership was divided over the war, the union leadership consistently supported the administration.

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